Episode 154: Rediscovering Justice, Part 3--The Prophets

The prophets were, let's face it, troublemakers.  They overturned people's expectations. They questioned the official decrees of kings and religious professionals with their own minority reports.  And they were willing to question whether God's priorities were the same as what everybody assumed they were.  And over and over again, the prophets--voices like Amos, Micah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah--called out the societies in which they lived when the powers of the day forgot about justice.  To the prophets, though, this thing called "justice" was about much more than punishing people for breaking rules--it was about setting right whole societies that had become rotten with disregard for those who were most vulnerable.  That meant that even when the markets were reaching new record highs and life seemed stable and comfortable (at least for some), the prophets still called for something more, something deeper, and something better.  Voices like those are often ignored or silenced, but they remind us that God's understanding of justice is deeper and richer than simply retaliating aginst rule-breaking.  In this episode of Crazy Faith Talk, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve turn up the volume on some of those voices, to help listen to what the prophets of ancient Israel and Judah have to say about the meaning of "justice" in our ongoing series to rediscover what justice is really all about.  Check it out here!